Chapter Summaries

Sharpfang’s Big Boss’s Kiss devastated the Necron forces and left Imotekh badly damaged. Sharpfang rallied the Gretchin with news of his survival, while Imotekh prepared to issue orders to his army in a rage.

• The blast tore apart Necron troops, split the ground, and left Imotekh severely damaged at the center of a vast crater.
• Sharpfang teleported to the reserve position, injured but alive, and seized the communications device.
• Sharpfang announced that he had struck Imotekh with the Big Boss’s Kiss, and the Gretchin erupted in cheers and renewed their attack.
• Imotekh struggled to his feet, contacted his flagship, and began ordering his army to act as rage overtook him.

Imotekh ordered the Necrons to slaughter everything after Gretchin embarrassed him, despite the protocol’s severe inefficiency and losses. Szarekh judged Imotekh foolish, took control of the battle, and descended toward the battlefield as the Gretchin fled.

• Imotekh activated the Harvest Protocol and threatened an Overlord who tried to dissuade him.
• Necron Warriors poured from their warships and attacked indiscriminately, rapidly breaching the Gretchin’s second defensive line.
• The Voice of the Triarch reported that the Harvest Protocol was far less efficient and far more costly than standard tactics, and called Imotekh’s conduct extremely foolish.
• Szarekh ordered Imotekh’s forces to withdraw to the flanks and transformed the Blackstone Throne into a meteor aimed at the battlefield.
• The second defensive line collapsed, and surviving Gretchin retreated under fire until the sky suddenly darkened.

Szarekh used the Annihilation Matrix to erase the Gretchin’s second defensive line, while Sharpfang rallied the survivors to defend the sleeping Big Boss. Trazyn tried to seize the golden cocoon, but the protagonist emerged as a C’tan, destroyed him, and reached the front in an instant.

• Szarekh arrived on the Blackstone Throne and erased more than 150,000 Gretchin and their fortifications with the Annihilation Matrix.
• Sharpfang rallied the Gretchin at the third defensive line to hold their position until the Big Boss awoke, then armed himself and went to the trenches.
• Trazyn slipped past the battlefield’s defenses and approached the golden cocoon, intending to add the being inside to his collection.
• The protagonist’s hand burst from the cocoon, seized Trazyn, and destroyed his living metal body by grinding it into data.
• The protagonist emerged as a C’tan and crossed the battlefield instantly to confront the fighting at the front.

The golden protagonist returned to the third defensive line, erased the Necron army, and reunited with the wounded Sharpfang. After defeating Imotekh and countering Szarekh’s attacks, he appeared above the Dominion Throne as Szarekh activated its self-destruct protocol.

• The protagonist descended onto the battlefield and disintegrated the charging Necron army by altering physical laws.
• He praised Sharpfang, comforted him over the fallen warriors, and said their souls were with him.
• Imotekh attacked the protagonist, who broke his War Scythe and destroyed his energy core.
• Szarekh fired the Dominion Throne’s weapons, but the protagonist captured their attacks and hurled the energy back at the Necron forces.
• Szarekh activated the Throne’s Final Protocol, and the protagonist appeared above the Throne and pressed a hand against it.

After destroying Szarekh and the Necron fleet, Liu Zhipeng’s body collapsed from the imbalance between realspace and Warp energy, and he died in a supernova. He immediately reincarnated as a lucid chaos spawn in the Eye of Terror, where a greater daemon of Slaanesh’s attack triggered his transformation into an Abyssal Maw.

• Liu Zhipeng crushed Szarekh and his blackstone throne with one punch, then destroyed the Necron fleet by hurling the system’s asteroids and cosmic dust at it.
• Liu Zhipeng realized [Primordial Quickening] was turning against him because his realspace energy vastly outweighed his Warp energy, and he erupted into golden light and died in a supernova.
• Liu Zhipeng awoke as a writhing mass of flesh on a daemon world in the Eye of Terror and sensed that his soul craved Warp energy.
• A greater daemon of Slaanesh approached Liu Zhipeng and plunged its claws into his body, expecting to corrupt him.
• Liu Zhipeng’s [Primordial Quickening] drained the daemon’s Warp energy, reshaped him into an Abyssal Maw, and let him bite off half the daemon’s body.

Liu Zhipeng devoured a Keeper of Secrets, easing the hunger of his [Primordial Quickening] and transforming into a spherical Chaos Spawn. Drawn by the warp energy on a battlefield between Khorne’s and Slaanesh’s daemons, he launched himself toward the fighting.

• The Greater Daemon attacked Liu Zhipeng, but Liu’s [Primordial Quickening] drained its energy and swallowed it whole.
• Liu felt his soul’s agony ease slightly, though his hunger for warp energy remained.
• Liu’s body reorganized into a smooth, dark-purple sphere, and he discovered he could bounce rapidly across the ground.
• Liu saw Bloodletters and Daemonettes fighting across the Sulfur Plains and sensed the exposed energy of slain daemons.
• Liu ignored his caution and rocketed toward the battlefield at supersonic speed.

Liu Zhipeng devoured a battlefield full of Bloodletters and Daemonettes, resisting the latter’s soul-affecting songs, then found a concert of Noise Marines in the ruins. The Noise Marines mistook the approaching flesh ball for a gift from the Dark Prince.

• Liu Zhipeng bounced through the daemon battle, crushing and devouring Bloodletters and Daemonettes until none remained.
• The Daemonettes tried to ensnare Liu Zhipeng with their songs, but his soul’s defenses burned away Slaanesh’s influence.
• Liu Zhipeng spotted a group of Emperor’s Children holding a concert amid the ruins, with captive mortals suffering as their audience.
• Liu Zhipeng crashed into the concert venue at supersonic speed, and the Noise Marines stopped playing to look at him.
• The Noise Marine leading the group laughed and told his brothers that the Dark Prince had bestowed a gift upon them.

Liu Zhipeng absorbed the Noise Marines’ sonic attacks, grew into a huge flesh sphere, and devoured the squad. After burping up their helmets and a broken guitar, he sensed a vast Warp-energy shadow forming in the sky.

• The Noise Marines fired sonic weapons at Liu Zhipeng, whose flesh-ball body absorbed the sound and bounced to their music.
• The Noise Marines increased their weapons’ power, causing Liu Zhipeng to swell to nearly fifteen metres and fire golden blasts from his body.
• Liu Zhipeng crushed the Noise Marines’ formation, dragged them into his abyssal maws, and devoured all twelve.
• Liu Zhipeng burped up cleanly gnawed helmets and a broken electric guitar, then looked for more food on the planet.
• Liu Zhipeng saw an enormous shadow made of Warp energy taking shape in the sky.

Liu Zhipeng’s flesh ball fought Karathes’s Chaos army, devouring many Khorne Berserkers and scattering the rest. Tzeentch’s Thousand Sons then tried to bind it alive for study.

• Karathes ordered his Chaos army and Helbrute to kill Liu Zhipeng’s flesh ball.
• The flesh ball charged into the Khorne Berserkers, swallowed five, and resisted their chain weapons.
• The flesh ball spun like a meat grinder, flinging Berserkers aside and devouring half of the three hundred attackers.
• The remaining Berserkers tried to retreat, but the Thousand Sons mocked them and ordered the flesh ball captured alive.
• The Thousand Sons cast a psychic spell and wrapped the flesh ball in blue energy chains.

Liu Zhipeng’s fleshy sphere devoured the Thousand Sons’ psychic power and Karathes’s Chaos spells, shrugging off his attacks. A Helbrute then unleashed thirty seconds of heavy fire on the sphere, leaving the battlefield shrouded in explosions.

• A Thousand Sons sorcerer’s psychic chains connected to Liu Zhipeng’s sphere, which drained the power of more than a dozen Thousand Sons until they fell as dried corpses.
• Liu Zhipeng taunted Karathes, who attacked the sphere with a pillar of nine-colored flame, but the sphere emerged unharmed and belched after consuming it.
• Karathes unleashed a storm of Chaos spells, and Liu Zhipeng’s sphere sucked them into its mouth and rated the meal eight out of ten.
• A Helbrute arrived, locked onto the three-meter sphere, and bombarded it with its weapons for thirty seconds, creating a hundred-meter-deep crater.
• A Chaos Space Marine cautiously asked whether the bombardment had worked.

Liu Zhipeng’s flesh ball devoured a Helbrute from the inside, then expanded and swallowed the Chaos army as it fled. With the battlefield silent and his forces gone, Karathes was left facing the flesh ball’s offer to eat him next.

• The flesh ball survived the Chaos attack, struck the Helbrute, and consumed its power claw and daemonic core.
• Liu Zhipeng’s flesh ball reached the Helbrute’s cockpit and devoured its fused Chaos Space Marines, daemonic heart, and other contents in thirty seconds.
• The surviving Chaos forces fled, but the flesh ball grew to nearly 150 meters across and used thousands of Abyssal Maws to swallow them in one minute.
• Karathes watched his army and Helbrute disappear, then trembled as Liu Zhipeng asked whether he would jump in or be invited.

Karathes summoned a divine scythe with Khorne’s power to fight Liu Zhipeng, but Liu Zhipeng’s ball of flesh ate the weapon and then devoured Karathes. Afterward, Liu Zhipeng surveyed the ruined battlefield and found no living things left.

• Karathes refused to flee and summoned a blood-red scythe by sacrificing half his life force.
• Liu Zhipeng’s ball of flesh caught the scythe in its mouth and chewed it up.
• Karathes tried to teleport away, but Liu Zhipeng’s golden chain pulled him out of the teleportation circle.
• Liu Zhipeng absorbed Karathes’s spells, dragged him into the Abyssal Maw, and swallowed him.
• Liu Zhipeng surveyed the battlefield and saw only ruins, broken weapons, and an empty Helbrute shell.

Liu Zhipeng devised a plan to reverse blackstone’s polarity and draw Warp energy away from the Chaos Gods so he could feed more efficiently. He summoned Ghazghk and Sharpfang’s forces to begin building the network.

• Liu Zhipeng calculated that devouring Daemons one by one would take centuries and decided he needed a more efficient way to gather Warp energy.
• Liu Zhipeng realized that reversing blackstone’s polarity might attract Warp energy and planned to build a network throughout the Eye of Terror.
• Liu Zhipeng entered his soul world and asked Ghazghk and Sharpfang to help with the plan.
• Liu Zhipeng summoned the Gretchin souls above a ravaged Daemon World, where Ghazghk arrived with 150,000 technical troops and Sharpfang with millions of engineering and logistics troops.

Liu Zhipeng organized three million Gretchin to prepare for construction while he transformed into a colossal ball of mouths and began clearing nearby Daemon Worlds. He devoured Nurgle’s plague-spore world and Khorne’s gladiatorial arena, then moved on to consume more worlds.

• Liu Zhipeng assigned Ghazghk to devise a way to reverse blackstone’s polarity and create simplified blueprints, while Sharpfang organized the construction crews and logistics.
• Liu Zhipeng grew into a colossal sphere covered in Abyssal Maws and announced that he would clear the surrounding Daemon Worlds for construction.
• Liu Zhipeng descended on Nurgle’s tentacle forest, devoured its creatures and plague spores, and left the Daemon World stripped bare.
• Liu Zhipeng attacked Khorne’s gladiatorial arena and swallowed its daemons, weapons, buildings, and walls of screaming souls.
• Liu Zhipeng finished clearing the arena and continued toward nearby Daemon Worlds.

Ghazghk and the Gretchin built the Abyssal Darkweb, a growing network of Flesh Blackstone Obelisks that siphoned Warp energy to Liu Zhipeng. With more than twelve thousand obelisks already operating across over sixty Daemon Worlds, Sharpfang pushed crews to build faster while Ghazghk explored ways to expand each obelisk’s range.

• Sharpfang led Gretchin crews to build the first Flesh Blackstone Obelisk, and Ghazghk confirmed that it could siphon Warp energy into Liu Zhipeng.
• Liu Zhipeng continued rolling across Daemon Worlds and felt energy flowing from the new obelisk into his soul.
• The Gretchin built twelve thousand obelisks across more than sixty Daemon Worlds and connected them into Ghazghk’s Abyssal Darkweb.
• Sharpfang ordered construction crews to work three nonstop shifts so they could keep pace with Liu Zhipeng’s rapid progress.
• Ghazghk calculated that doubling each obelisk’s suction radius could reduce the number needed by 75 percent, then began testing whether the Flesh Keystone could handle the increased load.

Ghazghk’s Gretchin upgraded the Flesh Blackstone Obelisks, strengthening the Abyssal Darkweb and easing Liu Zhipeng’s hunger as it spread across Daemon Worlds. The Four Chaos Gods finally noticed the network’s theft of their power, and Tzeentch sent his forces to corrupt it.

• Ghazghk introduced the MK-II Obelisk design, and Sharpfang ordered construction crews to build new models and retrofit completed ones.
• The first MK-II Obelisk drew Warp energy more powerfully and converted it more efficiently, prompting Sharpfang to order a network-wide upgrade.
• Liu Zhipeng felt [Primordial Quickening] approach a balance of physical and Warp energy, then chose Tzeentch’s Crystal Labyrinth as his next target.
• The Four Gods noticed that the Abyssal Darkweb was siphoning energy from them as twelve thousand Obelisks linked across more than sixty Daemon Worlds.
• Tzeentch grew angry after discovering that his tribute had fallen by nearly thirty percent and sent his children to corrupt the network.

Tzeentch’s conceptual daemons failed to disrupt Liu Zhipeng’s Obelisk network because [primordial quickening] devoured them, leaving Tzeentch furious and unable to see through [Temporal Wraith]’s protection. Khorne sent Angron and a vast army to attack the network, where they met Sharpfang’s Gretchin defenders.

• Tzeentch unleashed conceptual daemons through the Obelisks’ energy conduits toward Liu Zhipeng’s soul.
• [primordial quickening] consumed the conceptual daemons and converted them into Warp energy.
• Tzeentch failed to calculate Liu Zhipeng’s weakness through [Temporal Wraith] and shrieked in frustration.
• Khorne mocked Tzeentch and ordered Angron to lead an assault on the Obelisk network.
• Angron led Bloodthirsters and other Khorne daemons into battle against Sharpfang’s Gretchin forces.
• Sharpfang’s Gretchin opened fire, but the endless Khorne daemons pressed forward and battered their defenses.

Angron led Khorne’s forces through the Gretchin defenses and leapt toward the central Obelisk, intent on destroying it. Liu Zhipeng triggered the twelve thousand Obelisks at maximum overload just before Angron’s axe could strike, unleashing a Warp-wide suction that froze the battlefield and began pulling everything in an unknown direction.

• Sharpfang commanded the Gretchin to fire from their defensive line as the Scrap Gargant’s beam disintegrated Bloodletters, but Khorne’s forces surged through the gap.
• Angron charged through Gretchin mechs, killing pilots and machines with Bloodfather and Bloodson while eight Greater Daemons devastated the defensive line behind him.
• Angron leapt toward the central Obelisk and raised his axe for a strike powerful enough to split a planet.
• Liu Zhipeng saw that Khorne’s forces were surrounded by the Obelisk network and switched all twelve thousand MK-II flesh-and-blood Blackstone Obelisks to maximum overload.
• The overloaded Obelisks unleashed a powerful suction across the Warp, freezing the battlefield before it lurched in an unknown direction.

Liu Zhipeng’s Obelisks devoured Khorne’s charging army and trapped Angron, turning him into a living source of energy. The humiliation reached Khorne’s Brass Throne, where the Blood God stared at the image in silence.

• The Obelisks pulled Khorne’s Daemons, beasts, and fallen into their surfaces, consuming their bodies, souls, and Warp energy.
• Skal tried to resist the suction, but it tore off his wings and swallowed him.
• Angron slammed into an Obelisk and became pinned there as his struggles only increased its drain.
• Angron raged and flailed while the Gretchin watched, and Ghazghk mocked him as if he were dancing.
• Khorne saw Angron trapped as an energy source, and his laughter abruptly stopped.

Khorne prepared to personally attack the Purple Meatball and its allies, but withdrew when he sensed Slaanesh using divine power nearby. Slaanesh watched Angron's humiliating predicament in the Eye of Terror and delighted in the spectacle.

• Khorne erupted in fury over the humiliation of his legion and rose from the Brass Throne, taking up his Greatsword.
• As Khorne prepared to cross into the Eye of Terror and destroy the Purple Meatball, he sensed Slaanesh's divine power rising elsewhere in the Warp.
• Khorne withdrew rather than share his prey or battlefield with Slaanesh, crushed a nearby brass fortress, and vowed to kill them both later.
• Slaanesh watched Angron pinned against the Obelisk and laughed at Khorne's humiliation.